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...week began with an attempt to perform a prodigious trick: to spin five satellites into orbit with one rocket shot. It failed when the second stage of the Thor-Able-Star booster misfired. Two days later, there was an effort to land instruments on the moon. It went awry when its booster developed too much power; at best, scientists estimated, Ranger III might pass within 25,000 miles of the moon-close enough, perhaps, to send back some TV pictures of its surface. Then a handsome lieutenant colonel of the Marine Corps, John Glenn, 40, eased himself into his cramped...
Chrysler claims that it has solved the last problem by designing a system of variable nozzles that counters the turbines' spin and brings them to a controlled stop. The company plans to conduct further engineering and cost studies, after which it will decide on volume production...
Looking like a Dauphine that has just swallowed a Cadillac, the hero tools home to the alley he lives in: hardly room to park. Then he takes half the quartier out for a spin; runs out of gas. Next day he drives to work. When the boss gets a load of that showboat parked next to his own heap, he fires the hero on the spot. Two days later, Dhéry gets a new job as a chauffeur: his boss is the mistress, who promptly locks the poor lunk in the trunk, drives by the wife's house...
...Minuteman waits in its silo, its guidance system will stare fixedly at the North Star, its silent gyroscope will spin ceaselessly. Cranked into its memory drums will be the data to guide the missile to any one of several targets. The guidance system itself cannot be jammed by electronics once it is set in motion...
...crackling (and self-cultivated) Oxonian accents, he has put forth Nehru's ideas with a snarling eloquence all over the world, giving them a leftist spin that invariably directs them against the West. Menon bends over backward to make allowances for the Communists, in 1956 voted against a U.N. resolution calling for the removal of Russian troops from beleaguered Hungary. He mouthed the Russian line at the Geneva conference on Laos last summer, has echoed Russia's call for an uninspected nuclear test ban. Once criticized by the former Senator William F. Knowland for his consistent advocacy...